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Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of ...

In the early 1900s, art movements within the then-burgeoning category of modern art were exploding in multiple directions, and among them was a strand called Orphism. What was it? In some ways, it is ...

Last semester, I visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now my favorite art museum — for the first time. Built by Gardner and her husband to display their vast art collection in a dignified and ...

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The Khalili collection: Japanese art exhibitions -- Foreword / Professor Nasser D. Khalili -- Introduction / Gregory Irvine -- Vincent van Gogh and Japan / Axel Rüger -- From Namban to Meiji: the ...

"Published in hardcover in the USA as Art in the modern era : a guide to styles, schools and movements"--T.p. verso. 1860-1900 : rise of the Avant-Gardes -- Impressionism -- Arts and crafts -- Chicago ...

When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that the art world had systematically excluded ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

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